A previous vicar has confessed to 15 rape offenses subsequent to being captured in the Dilworth School sexual maltreatment inquiry. Ross Douglas Browne attacked a portion of the school’s most weak understudies, despite the fact that he battled the charges for a really long time following his capture.
Today, a year in the wake of leaving as Anglican minister of Manurewa Parish, he conceded guilt. The blameworthy requests, as per an individual from the Dilworth people group, are a big justification for misuse victims.
Further, Browne conceded to physically attacking minors somewhere in the range of 1987 and 2004 and to gathering hostile material in 2020. He supposedly had 15 hostile photos on his telephone, as indicated by police.
He was viewed very muchliable of every one of the 16 violations he recognized in the High Court in Auckland today. Seven additional charges were dropped. Browne’s arraignment came before long the Herald revealed that the Dilworth Trust Board was examining casualty pay.
Browne was free on bail until December 2, presently he has been sentenced.Ross Douglas Browne was named Chaplin at Dilworth School, where he was responsible for strict instruction in October 1979. At the point when specialists captured him in September 2020, he was the vicar of St Luke’s Church in Manurewa.
He was additionally a Scout and an individual from the Auckland Gang Show, a novice dramatic group. Browne conceded to 15 wrongdoings including 14 kids and young people who were attacked somewhere in the range of 1987 and 2002 and was condemned in October. Most of the setbacks were kids matured 12 to 16. For every one of the counts, he got a six-and-a-half-year term.
#BREAKING: Sentencing is under way in Auckland for one of Dilworth School’s most prolific sex offenders. In October, Ross Douglas Browne pleaded guilty at the Auckland High Court to 16 charges.https://t.co/FOrdYEEN4q
— RNZ (@radionz) December 1, 2021
In expansion, he was likewise condemned to a one-year jail for having unwanted books depicting youngster misuse, which were found during a police search of his home in 2020.
Ross Douglas’ flow age is 73 years of age. He was a cleric who most as of late served at Manurewa’s St Luke’s Church. He has likewise functioned as a radio telecaster and an actor.
Aside from that, nothing about his own life has been made public. Our endeavors to get more familiar with Ross Douglas’ significant other and family were ineffective on the grounds that no such data is freely accessible.